Re: [pmwiki-users] Fwd: PmWiki forum...

2007-03-20 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-03-19 Francis Casson is rumoured to have said: I previously suggested a mailing list ethic (although the thread got diverted somewhat from that, which was the original point.) With this ethic - if you get something out of this list you put something back into the PmWiki

Re: [pmwiki-users] PageTextVariable: own automatic variable format

2007-03-20 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 11:28:11AM +0100, Knut Alboldt wrote: I tried to add my format using the following statement: $PageTextVarPatterns['var::'] = '/^([a..zA..Z_-\/]*)\\s*::[ \\t]?(.*)$/m'; but that doesn't work PCRE uses hyphens to indicate character ranges instead of '..', so you

Re: [pmwiki-users] Generate a list of categories, when some category pages don't exist

2007-03-20 Thread the Other michael
On 3/19/07, Patrick R. Michaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 10:39:22PM -0400, the Other michael wrote: On 3/19/07, Kathryn Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wiki.pmwiki.user/29869 asked if anybody had examined/tested Sebastian's

Re: [pmwiki-users] Generate a list of categories, when some category pages don't exist

2007-03-20 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 09:13:17AM -0400, the Other michael wrote: On 3/19/07, Patrick R. Michaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 10:39:22PM -0400, the Other michael wrote: But if the pagelist (referencing the cat-tagged pages) is included in the header or footer, that would

[pmwiki-users] Pbm with searchbox after upgrade 2.0.10 - 2.2.0beta37

2007-03-20 Thread P Victor
Hello I just made an upgrade of pmwiki from 2.0.10 to 2.2.0beta37 When I try to make a search with the searchbox I get the result and the followinf error message at the bottom of my page: Warning: mkdir(wiki.d): Permission denied in /Users/pl/Sites/pmwiki/pmwiki.php on line 445 PmWiki can't

Re: [pmwiki-users] Pbm with searchbox after upgrade 2.0.10 - 2.2.0beta37

2007-03-20 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
[resending to pmwiki-users] On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 02:33:38PM +0100, P Victor wrote: Hello I just made an upgrade of pmwiki from 2.0.10 to 2.2.0beta37 When I try to make a search with the searchbox I get the result and the followinf error message at the bottom of my page:

Re: [pmwiki-users] PageTextVariable: own automatic variable format

2007-03-20 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 02:50:09PM +0100, Knut Alboldt wrote: ... it doesn't seems to work like I exspected it: used: $PageTextVarPatterns['var::'] = '/^([-a-zA-Z_ ]+)\\s*::[ \\t]?(.*)$/m'; varname1:: value1 Referenz: : value1 (I don't want the second colon in the reference) I'm not

Re: [pmwiki-users] Fwd: PmWiki forum...

2007-03-20 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
On 2007-03-20 the Other michael is rumoured to have said: Neil, I've added that to the WikiRefactoring page as a recommended action. I added a usage suggestion. I've got a question posed under http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/WikiRefactoring#Location I feel somewhat inhibited editing the

[pmwiki-users] gemini (:theme:) broken on PmWiki?

2007-03-20 Thread SteP
I tried the three Gemini themes examples on PmWiki, but they don't seem to work, what gives? ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

[pmwiki-users] pagetextvariables and pagelist-templates

2007-03-20 Thread Knut Alboldt
can I use pagetextvariables in pagelist-templates, e.g.: Site.Localtemplates contains definition: fmt=#caldetails Concatenate the text of pages in the list. (Note, this can be an expensive operation!) [[#caldetails]] !!! [[{=$FullName}|+]] FULLNAME={=$FullName} DATE={{=$FullName}$:Date}

Re: [pmwiki-users] Problem with special characters

2007-03-20 Thread Petko Yotov
On Tuesday 20 March 2007 16:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm from Estonia and just started using PmWiki. I have a problem with Estonian characters. I need to use some Estonian letters in the wiki groups names and page names. It looks ok in the 'Side bar' and in page content but not in

Re: [pmwiki-users] pagetextvariables and pagelist-templates

2007-03-20 Thread Petko Yotov
On Tuesday 20 March 2007 17:41, Knut Alboldt wrote: [[#caldetails]] !!! [[{=$FullName}|+]] FULLNAME={=$FullName} DATE={{=$FullName}$:Date} (:include {=$FullName} self=0:) [[#caldetails]] ... FULLNAME= is filled correctly but Date= is empty You can try with FULLNAME={=$FullName}

Re: [pmwiki-users] pagetextvariables and pagelist-templates

2007-03-20 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 06:06:22PM +0100, Knut Alboldt wrote: Petko Yotov schrieb: On Tuesday 20 March 2007 17:41, Knut Alboldt wrote: [[#caldetails]] !!! [[{=$FullName}|+]] FULLNAME={=$FullName} DATE={{=$FullName}$:Date} (:include {=$FullName} self=0:) [[#caldetails]] ... FULLNAME=

Re: [pmwiki-users] RecipeList template

2007-03-20 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 05:45:44PM +, Hans wrote: I appreciate the new cookbook sidebar! It's still very much a work in progress. Feel free to make improvements -- I'm still experimenting. But there are a few problems: I find the table display hard to read: The page links on the

Re: [pmwiki-users] i18n updates

2007-03-20 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 06:23:30PM +0100, Oliver Betz wrote: This list can also be used as a starting point for a better organization and separation of pmwiki.org contents and the pages in the distribution. I still think that pages for the distribution should be marked some way. I'm generally

Re: [pmwiki-users] RecipeList template

2007-03-20 Thread The Editor
On 3/20/07, Patrick R. Michaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 05:45:44PM +, Hans wrote: I appreciate the new cookbook sidebar! It's still very much a work in progress. Feel free to make improvements -- I'm still experimenting. But there are a few problems: I

Re: [pmwiki-users] RecipeList template

2007-03-20 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 12:51:04PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 05:45:44PM +, Hans wrote: But there are a few problems: I find the table display hard to read: The page links on the left are in the middle of the cell, and perhaps are better at each

[pmwiki-users] rewrite url problem

2007-03-20 Thread Daniel Otis
I have this for my /.htaccess file: rewrite engine on Options +FollowSymlinks # Use mod_rewrite to enable Clean URLs for a PmWiki installation. # Define the rewrite base. It's not necessarily PmWiki's directory. rewrite base / # Send requests without parameters to pmwiki.php. RewriteRule ^$

[pmwiki-users] don't prompt to create page in Category

2007-03-20 Thread the Other michael
Okay, I'm lost. http://www.xradiograph.com/wrottings/Category/Reference is displaying the PageFooter pagelist-directive that lists all the tags. But I've also got a prompt to create the (otherwise non-existant) page. eg: Describe [pagename]? here. I don't think this behavior was there a couple

[pmwiki-users] Cookbook cleanup

2007-03-20 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
As several have noticed, the Cookbook has become a bit messy of late. I've started a new page to help us clean things up a bit, at http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Maintenance This page lists recipes that are missing Summary: descriptions, recipeinfo headers, categories, and anything

Re: [pmwiki-users] Cookbook cleanup

2007-03-20 Thread Hans
Tuesday, March 20, 2007, 8:39:09 PM, Patrick wrote: Feel free to use this page to help clean up any recipes that might need cleaning. (And I've created a backup of the pmwiki.org site in case we make any mistakes.) Thanks! I wonder how to treat those odd pages which are not recipes but are

Re: [pmwiki-users] Cookbook cleanup

2007-03-20 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 08:50:22PM +, Hans wrote: Tuesday, March 20, 2007, 8:39:09 PM, Patrick wrote: Feel free to use this page to help clean up any recipes that might need cleaning. (And I've created a backup of the pmwiki.org site in case we make any mistakes.) Thanks! I

[pmwiki-users] MarkupExtensions throwing 500 error on DropCaps

2007-03-20 Thread the Other michael
Have I corrupted my installation, or has something changed on my server? there are more bizarre behaviors today http://www.pmichaud.com/wiki/Cookbook/MarkupExtensions is working, but throwing Error 500 - Internal server error on pages with the D;rop caps markup; Other extensions are

Re: [pmwiki-users] Cookbook cleanup #2

2007-03-20 Thread Hans
Tuesday, March 20, 2007, 9:04:07 PM, Patrick wrote: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Cookbook-New I'm thinking I'd like to replace the current cookbook page with this one... any comments or suggestions? Searching /Pagelists is missing. PageVariables lead to a recipe page. Looks good to

Re: [pmwiki-users] Cookbook cleanup #2

2007-03-20 Thread Hans
Tuesday, March 20, 2007, 9:15:01 PM, Hans wrote: I'm thinking I'd like to replace the current cookbook page with this one... any comments or suggestions? Functional Extensions is not a (very clear) category. It is a place for all kinds of recipes, of various categories. I think it should not

Re: [pmwiki-users] Cookbook cleanup #2

2007-03-20 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 09:20:18PM +, Hans wrote: Tuesday, March 20, 2007, 9:15:01 PM, Hans wrote: I'm thinking I'd like to replace the current cookbook page with this one... any comments or suggestions? Functional Extensions is not a (very clear) category. I agree. It is a place

Re: [pmwiki-users] Cookbook cleanup

2007-03-20 Thread Dr Fred C
Is there any way to make it so recipees could have (or encouraged to have) some sort of meta tags that are the first results listed for search topic before the typical laundry list that seems to include any reference to the searched topic. Patrick R. Michaud wrote: As several have noticed, the

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki forum...

2007-03-20 Thread Sandy
After reading the forum / mailing list to March 20: Pm's idea looks good. It will only be as good as it is maintained, but that's not news. And the nicer it is, the more likely it will be maintained. (I see he's already put it into action.) I agree that wiki is better for solutions, and

Re: [pmwiki-users] Cookbook cleanup #2

2007-03-20 Thread Hans
Tuesday, March 20, 2007, 9:25:21 PM, Patrick wrote: Feel free to adjust it to a better set of category/categories. We may want to avoid creating too many categories, however. (And it's okay if a recipe appears in multiple categories.) The beauty of the cookbook sidebar is that it suggests a

Re: [pmwiki-users] Question about wikidir.d

2007-03-20 Thread Sandy
Patrick R. Michaud wrote: By edit the file /wikilib.d/PmWiki/Installation, do you mean that you're editing the file directly? Or did you really mean to say you were editing the PmWiki.Installation page via ?action=edit ? via ?action=edit . Your understanding of how things are supposed

Re: [pmwiki-users] New ZAP markup module...

2007-03-20 Thread The Editor
On 3/18/07, The Editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just finishing up a new module for a new markup for ZAP variables suggested by Pm. I really like the look of it, but will continue to maintain both markups {#c } for a while in the same module... Then deprecate the old stuff later. Here's

Re: [pmwiki-users] i18n updates

2007-03-20 Thread Oliver Betz
Patrick R. Michaud wrote: This list can also be used as a starting point for a better organization and separation of pmwiki.org contents and the pages in the distribution. I still think that pages for the distribution should be marked some way. I'm generally in favor of this, at least for

Re: [pmwiki-users] pagetextvariables and pagelist-templates

2007-03-20 Thread Knut Alboldt
Patrick R. Michaud schrieb: It should be just {=$:Date}. [[#caldetails]] !!! [[{=$FullName}|+]] FULLNAME={=$FullName} DATE={=$:Date} ... [[#caldetailsend]] What version of PmWiki are you using? just updated to 2.2.beta37 before Is there a url we could look at? no, sorry,

[pmwiki-users] Farm $PageTemplateFmt and $skin

2007-03-20 Thread Clemens Gruber
Hi, for a farm setup I use $PageTemplateFmt to specify the template. This is necessary because the temlate is not on the sames server as the farm is, the temlate is generated form an other CMS system. So I can not use $skin to declare the template. Now I have a problem concerning the print

Re: [pmwiki-users] Question about wikidir.d

2007-03-20 Thread Sandy
Your understanding of how things are supposed to work is correct -- PmWiki doesn't write to files in the wikilib.d/ directory, but instead creates a new copy of the page in wiki.d/ (and uses that in preference to the wikilib.d/ page). So, if PmWiki is modifying the file in wikilib.d/

Re: [pmwiki-users] Cookbook cleanup #2

2007-03-20 Thread The Editor
On 3/20/07, Patrick R. Michaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 05:33:43PM -0400, The Editor wrote: PS. I would still like to see the FAQ section reworked also, where all the questions are listed in a table, for easy perusing, and then you click on one to see the answer.

Re: [pmwiki-users] Cookbook cleanup #2

2007-03-20 Thread Petko Yotov
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:04:07 -0500, Patrick R. Michaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As part of the Cookbook cleanup, I've also created a new version of the Cookbook home page, at: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Cookbook-New I'm thinking I'd like to replace the current cookbook page with

Re: [pmwiki-users] Cookbook cleanup #2

2007-03-20 Thread The Editor
On 3/20/07, Petko Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:04:07 -0500, Patrick R. Michaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As part of the Cookbook cleanup, I've also created a new version of the Cookbook home page, at: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Cookbook-New I'm

Re: [pmwiki-users] Cookbook cleanup #2

2007-03-20 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 11:36:36PM +0100, Petko Yotov wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:04:07 -0500, Patrick R. Michaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As part of the Cookbook cleanup, I've also created a new version of the Cookbook home page, at: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Cookbook-New

Re: [pmwiki-users] Cookbook cleanup #2

2007-03-20 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 06:45:02PM -0400, The Editor wrote: On 3/20/07, Petko Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:04:07 -0500, Patrick R. Michaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As part of the Cookbook cleanup, I've also created a new version of the Cookbook home page, at:

Re: [pmwiki-users] Cookbook cleanup #2

2007-03-20 Thread Petko Yotov
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:46:43 -0500, Patrick R. Michaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 06:45:02PM -0400, The Editor wrote: On 3/20/07, Petko Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:04:07 -0500, Patrick R. Michaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As part of the

[pmwiki-users] ID in wiki markups

2007-03-20 Thread Guillermo Calderon - INCO
Hi all; I have a doubt about the inclusion of ID fields in some markups. For instance: * tables * input, form * styles %% * div and .. * (:div ... :) In this markups, the author can write an id field wich will be converted to and html id atributte. The problem is that it

Re: [pmwiki-users] new version of Bonny Skin

2007-03-20 Thread Sandy
Kathryn Andersen wrote: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/BonnySkin This version has * fixes to make it work better in IE * two new themes: * team (Red, Black, White) made on request, since someone felt that PmWiki skins were all pale pastel colours, and nothing was available

Re: [pmwiki-users] new version of Bonny Skin

2007-03-20 Thread Kathryn Andersen
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 07:11:12PM -0400, Sandy wrote: Kathryn Andersen wrote: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/BonnySkin I like it! I especially like the textures. Very easy to read stuff that's over them, and not over-used. Thanks! One annoyance, though: The sidebar links show

Re: [pmwiki-users] ID in wiki markups

2007-03-20 Thread Hans
Tuesday, March 20, 2007, 11:06:43 PM, Guillermo wrote: Why would an author like to write ids in a wiki page? (I think that class is enought for more purposes) Most often ids are not necessary and classes may work fine. I use ids with the show/hide recipe, as it needs explicit ids for the

[pmwiki-users] Fwd: MarkupExtensions throwing 500 error on DropCaps

2007-03-20 Thread the Other michael
and if disable the drop-caps, everything is happy again $MarkupExtensions['A;'] = false; @[EMAIL PROTECTED])* I don't have a dedicated server, so I have no access to error messages. Anybody have any ideas? -- Forwarded message -- From: the Other michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:

Re: [pmwiki-users] Cookbook cleanup #2

2007-03-20 Thread Kathryn Andersen
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 09:39:36PM +, Hans wrote: Tuesday, March 20, 2007, 9:25:21 PM, Patrick wrote: Feel free to adjust it to a better set of category/categories. We may want to avoid creating too many categories, however. (And it's okay if a recipe appears in multiple categories.)

Re: [pmwiki-users] [off list] Cookbook cleanup #2

2007-03-20 Thread Petko Yotov
Patrick, The recipe http://pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/DeltaBytesRecentChanges is not shown in the new Cookbook lists. I suspect the new list=recipe filter to exclude more than just RecentChanges. Can you fix it, please. Thanks, Petko My bad, indeed I overlooked it. In that case, yes, it *is*

[pmwiki-users] calendars and contact lists

2007-03-20 Thread Lindsay Todd
Folks: I'd like to use pmwiki to track birthdays, anniversaries, etc. I also would like to use pmwiki to track contacts (especially friends and families). Somehow I would like to be keep all the information for a person in one place. I see there is a FoxContacts recipe that can track people

Re: [pmwiki-users] [off list] Cookbook cleanup #2

2007-03-20 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 12:23:58AM +0100, Petko Yotov wrote: Patrick, The recipe http://pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/DeltaBytesRecentChanges is not shown in the new Cookbook lists. I suspect the new list=recipe filter to exclude more than just RecentChanges. Can you fix it, please. Should

Re: [pmwiki-users] Fwd: MarkupExtensions throwing 500 error on DropCaps

2007-03-20 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 07:21:50PM -0400, the Other michael wrote: and if disable the drop-caps, everything is happy again $MarkupExtensions['A;'] = false; @[EMAIL PROTECTED])* I don't have a dedicated server, so I have no access to error messages. Anybody have any ideas? It looks to me

Re: [pmwiki-users] Cookbook cleanup #2

2007-03-20 Thread Ryan R. Varick
I overlooked it too; it still blends in with the rest of the categories. One gap between list items isn't enough to break the association of a list of categories. I think it needs something more to set it apart. Further, while I like the alphabetical organization of the Index page, I miss the

Re: [pmwiki-users] Still Stuck

2007-03-20 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 10:39:37PM -0500, Steve Cullison wrote: The URL is the ungainly http://chaos.phpwebhosting.com/~bjt/steve/ pmwiki/ (http://wiki.cullison.net will get you there as well, but will also obscure addresses, potentially interfering with trouble- shooting). The most